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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-04-06
Tha saitaa.. ..nagaad1 KIOSK.

The most beautiful object In the serag-
ho IS not anything In the treasury. but
the 1fyely little .Bagdad Kiosk, built,
says Tradition. by Murad " in imitation
Of onq he saw when he conquered Bag
dad y doubt very much If any such
bull allg ever existed at BagSlad The
tiles are not at all Persian in style, but
are ot the blue kind so common In Cairo,
and resemble especially those of the
mosque of Abrahim Agha (1652J, which
may possibly have been shipped to Egypt
from Constantinople. The kiosk, with its
tile lining and inlaid doors and painted
ceilings, is a dainty little edifice, more
like Cairo than Stambouli building;
but the view from its yeranda is more
beautiful still.
Earth hath not anything to show
more FAIR than this exquisite view over
the Bpsphorus. The expresses and crumb-
ling masses of irregular old buildings Of
the Seraglio conceal the shipping and the
bridge and less picturesque portions of
the city; at our feet are the neglected
sllruhs and lawn of the quiet, peaceful
palace garden, and over the battle
mented wall we can see the mouth of the
Golden Horn, and look past it up the
winding Bosphorus, past Seutari on the
il-le eli,S and 0rtakeai on the other, till
we almost see the Sweet Waters OF Asia.
Clothed with yerdure, fringed with white
palaces and ruined wooden mansions of
the past, the Bosphorus is a real earthly
paradise, and the sultans never made a
greater mistake than when they left the
lovely seclusion of the old seraglio, with
its glorious view, and went to live on the
top of the hill of Yildiz.-C -Constantinople
Cor. London Times.
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1 do not believe in bringing up the
young to know life, as it is said. IshouId
just as soon think of bringing up child
by cutting some of the cords of his body
and lacerating his nerves and soaring
and tattooing him and making an Indian
of hin outright as an element of beauty
as should think OF developing his man
hood by bringing him up to see life-to
see its abominable lusts, to see its hideous
incarnations of wit, to see it's internal
wickedness, to see its extravagant and
degrading scenes, to see its miserable car
nalities, to see its inasinations set on fire
of hell, to see all those temptations and
delusions which lead to perdition. No
body gets over the sight of these things.
They who see tben always carry scars.
They are burned. And though they live.
they live as men that have been burned.
The scar remains. Henry Ward Beeeher
In New York World.
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ZINC Ileal yyar correaI.ondcnt.

The ideal war c rresponce cent nuft be a
man who has among other things the gift
of tongues He must speak in addition
to the ordinary European languages some
of the Asiatic. including Afghanistan.
and soinc African, including. Soudanese,
Ashantee, Abyssinian and Zulu. He
must have q lovely temper, amiable as
woman and as affable as a candidate
who is canvassing for your vote, and ut the
same tno he must be big and ugly
enough to scare off whole armies. He must
be able to ride anything from a giraffe TO
rat, and be able to sit IL the saddle for
100 miles at a stretch, to go without eat
ing for week, to write good, legible
round hand SO the clerk at the telegraph
3 alton can read it. He must write at the
rate of column an hour, and often
write eight columns and then gallnp back
to the scene of action. He must be able
to tell every move that is going to be
made and scent battle long before it
takes place, and then while It is raging
he must tell how it is going and what
will be the result long before it termin-
ates. All these accomplishments would
make a man an ideal correspondent, but
therc never was such a man Julius
Cesar would have made n good one If
there had been such men in those davs,
and Napoleon the First would have
eclipsed Julius Cesar if he could have
learned to be trutlIful.-London Cor.
New York Mail and Express.
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A sten HIn.I.r

Stiggins was passing matchmaker s.
establishment, and looking IN at the
window he noticed very pretty girl as
the counter
la he soliloquized, e1'n go in and
take look at her under some pretext or
other
He entered. and was waited on by tho
young lady g father.
What can Z do. for your"
81 want to get key for my watch, -
he stamnlereti, fastening his eyes on the
young lady.
Let me see your watch, /" said the
watchmaker.
As if in dream he took out his
watch. Tho matchmaker examined It
and said, with surprise:
Why, your watch Is a stem wfnder. y
BE doesn't remember how he got out,
but he does remember that the youn1
lady laughed. .-Texas Siftines,
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snred hr n.nnfr ra.,.

Five minutes later, the tunnel men Of
the Excelsior mine, mile below, taking
their luncheon on the rude platform Of
debris before their tunnel, were suddenly
driven to shelter in the tunnel from an
apparent rain of stones, rocks and pebbles
from the cliffs above. Looking up. they
were startled at seeing four round objects
revolving and bounding IN the dust of
the slide, which eventually resolved
themselves into three boys and a girl.
For moment the good men held their
breath in helpless terror. Twice one Of
the children had struck the outer edge of
the bank and displaced stones that shot
], 600 feet down into the dizzy depths OF!
the valley, and now one of them, the
girl. had actually rolled out of the slide
and was hanging over the chasm sup
ported only by a clump OF chiniasal ia
which she chung.
Hang on by your eyelids, sis, bul
don't stir for heavens saker' shouted
one of the men, as two others started ON
a hopeless ascent of the cliff above them.
But a light, childish hugh from the
clinging little figure above them seemed
to mock them. Then two small heads
appeared at the edge of the slide; then q
diminutive figure. whose feet were ap.
parentlz beln BY some invisible compaI-
lon, was showed over the brink, and
stretched its tiny arms toward the girl
But in vain. the distance was too great
Another laugh of intense youthful en-
joyment followed the failure, and a new
insecurity was added to the situation by
the unsteady hands and shoulders of the
relieving party, who We're apparently
shaking with laughter. Then the ex
tended figure was seen to detach what
looked like small black rope from its
shoulders and threw it to the girl. There
was another little giggle. The faces of
the rlen below paled in terror. Their
Polly-for it was she-hanging to the
long pigtail of Wan Lee, was drawn with
fits of laughter back in safety to the
slide. Their childish treble of apprecia-
ton was answered by ringing cheer
from below.
..Darned eff 1 ever want to cut off a
Chinaman's pigtail again, boys, said
one of the tunnel men as he went back
to dinner.-Bret Harte in 1.-THE Queen
of the Pirate Isle.,'
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KNOW NOT.

] know not when, on the heaven blue sea,
The boat OF death shall be launched for me;
When the heart shall falter, the brain shall reel
And the active fingers cease TO feel;
ButlI know some time, on the other shore,
The bark sha' be anchored for ever more.
/ know mot b ~ the chanee shall be,
Through what black waves OF misery,
What clouds shall gather. or storm waves beat,
Ere the outward voyage shall DO complete.
But know when the pain OF tho voyage 4, oier,
! shall pass through tempest nerer1nore
/ know not why am waiting here,
And what shall be- .sdoth not yet appear,
Butt know SOME time the Lord shah CALI
Without whos5 tice no birdlings fall
And in pain or pleasure, toll or rest,
I shall be as HIS wisdom seeth best
Laura Ben In Good Housekeeplne.
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TwIee Tl,ree seore ana ron.

A writer in The Journal of Man,
published in Boston, holds that 1.-THE at
tainahle limits of human longevity arc
generally underrated by the medical pro-
fession and by popular opinion. In
stead of the Scriptural limit of three
score and ten, he says, II would esti-
mate twice that amount. or 140 years. as
the ideal age of healthy longevity, when
mankind shall have been bred and trained
with the same wise energy that has been
expended on horses and cattle. OF the
present scrub race, very large number
ought never to have been born, and
ought not to be allowed to transmit their
physical and moral DEFICIENCIES to poster
ity." This estimate, he insists, Is sus-
tanned by the number Of persons of the
age of 40 found in Italy under a census
by one of the Roman emperors. If 8
aided. moreover, by the number of per-
sons in this country who have passed the
century hnit.-Detroit Free Press.
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Tllo Profe,siosoI F.t.r

These eating contests, quail or any
thing else, are not so common as they
used to be. They used to be popular
down south, where big niggcrs were
hired to cat against each other a. pro-
fessional eater II don't believe there are
any now viii train on certain foods and
go right through his job ON time at an
average rate, and not be sick when he is
done. When it comes to, drinking. that
Is a different thing, all depending On the
make up of the man. One man could
drink a quart of whisky at a swallow,
while another would drop dead. A,man
can accustom himself to do feats OF eat
ing, but he must naturally have acapacity
for drinking FarrelIy in Globe
Democrat.
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Mhat araIscs raper 1.nrn Y.1lo,r.

A recent writer has shown that the
yelIowing of paper is due to the oxidation
of paper by Light, and especially the more
refransible rnys. The discoloration is
more markell in wood papers than IN rag
papers, and more rapid In moist than in
dry air. Two practical results Of this study
are, first, to keep libraries as dry as. posi-
bic, and secondly, that the electric light
s far inferior to gas or oil, asther erefrangi-
BE. rays for SO large proportion Of itB
light.
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prern1onoe nf Hernia.

DIR. Baxter's tables show that out of
334, 321 recruits and substitutes examined
by the recruiting officers during the war
of the rebellion. more than II, 900 were
on account of hernia. The
London Truss society, during the first
twenty-eight years of its existence, issued
over $4,000 trusses. Two factories in
Philadelphia manufacture and sell from
316,000 to 900, 900 per Chicago
Medical Journal.
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1t has been claimed for years that rats
lrst introduced the terrible tricl1inae ia
wine and then, through fresh pork and
bacon, into human bodies. DR.. Landrey,
IN The Popular Science News, supports
this theory with personal Observations.
and cites number of cases showing that
dead rats, mice and cats should be kept
away from hogs. 1t is a crime to throw
dead rat to the hogs with such facts m
mind. - Chicago Times.
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Behring'S In the Ni1e pe1ta.

The borings in the delta of the Nile.
undertaken by the Royal society end IN
trusted to detachment of the Royai
engineers by permission of the British
secretary of state for war, have now
reached depth of nearly 200 feet with
oEt the solid bottom having been reached,
depth greater than was generally an
ticipated. a consignment, of specimens
has lately arrived In London and is now
under examina tion.-Neu Orleans Times.
Democrnt
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-04-06
Religious Liberty in China.

The Chinese are not people who per.
secute for opinion. Persons protesting
four different forms of faith or sets of
doctrines have lived side by side, and the
teachers of each have worked in peace
for centuries. No man's promotion in
the public service is increased or retarded
because he is of this or that form of re-
hgion.-The Churchman.
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nc cI,anee. fnzro..In-

Professor Proctor, In his new book ON
hance and Luck, = undertakes to ten
the chances of getting heads or tails In
tossing a penny If you res;s. am, I,e,,,.
'sheads'' viii not exceed sstaiIs - =.
"tails" Nheads" IN a greater Tlt;o t.s, tI,sn. -
81 to 3D. If you toss for 4 t,1v the ~ n
equality Will not be greater finn 11t =,
foo--sSew York Commercial Adrertiser.
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Book. nnh Ern.r,.n...

It is not what a man has seen but
what he has read that makes him learned
It is better to know one Great mind tI,.,,,
it is to visit three great countries. Tho.
wisdom VIC get from books broaslens the
mind; the experience we derive from
travel sliarpeRs Che wits,-AFlansaw
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Forgetfnlness of Pierce and Harrison.
Franklin Pierce and William Henry
Harrison had miserable memories. 1t is
said that on one occasion member of
the formers cabinet presented his daugh-
ter to him. A moment after an attache
of the English diplomatic corps requested
an introduction to the lady. Pierce
turned, looked at her, offered his hand
and stammered an apology while he
asked her name. She was completely
confused, and the officer, who had seen
the first Introduction, was at loss for
words. The situation was exceedingly
unpleasant. AT reception at the White
House Harrison was the center of a
coterie of beautiful women and couFtly
men, exchanging the civilities of the
hour, and in high feather with himself
and the world. A tall gentleman, with
side whislsers, with aquiline features, clad
in the mode of the miniature court which
surrounds president, approached him,
extending his hand. The group parted
before the visitor, who, with calm dig
nifty, advanced. General, greet and
congratulate you, " the stranger said. 81
do not know you, sir, replied Harrison
Il was your chief of staff, sir, during the
Indian wars, y responded the intruder as
he majeshcally confronted his whilom
chieftain. In moment the president
recognized his old comrade in arms.
Though apologies for his forgetfulness
were profuse, yet, it is said, his aid never
forgot the slight. Chicago Herald.
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Boycotting Hindoo. women.

Boycotting and outcasting are made
doubly oppressive to Hindoo women, and
for the most trifling reasons. A married
woman not putting the sindoor "a red
POWDER on the parting of her hair is
boycotted. In the country, if a mother
in-law eats or lives in the house of her
soh-fn-Iaw' before her daughter has a
child she will be at once boycotted. A
young married lady was boycotted for
not observing some ceremony at the birth
of her child. A man can regain his
caste by performing the expiatory rites,
but an outcast woman, especially if she
has broken away from the zenaua or
associated with non-Hindoos, is never
taken back to her caste.-St. James
Gazette.
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Poison I'm the Ink.

A 14-year-old scholar in the district
school near Vandalia, Ills, took swal-
low from his ink bottle the other day to
see how it would taste. Tho next morn
ing he died. His physician said that the
ink contained deadly poison.-New
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The value of a human life. estimated
from life assurance and wage statistics, is
$14. 600. Tho value, however, is not
realized without work and growth.
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A GREAT CAUSE OF
MISERY
rs THE less OF
IVA lI.N.! sgsgsgsl

A Lecture O,l tIae Nature
Treatment and Radical cure of
Seminal Weakness, or Spermatorrhua,
induced by Seif-Abuse. involuntary
Emissions. Impotency, Nervous Debili-
ty and impediments to Marriage gencr,
ally; Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits;
Mental and Physical Incapacity, &c.-
By ROBERT J. CULVERWELL, NJ. ID.
The wOrld-renuwned author, in this
admirable Lecture, clearly proves from
his own experience that the awful con-
sequences OF Self-Abuse may be effect
ually removed without dangerous surgi
cal operations, bougies, instruments,
rings or cordiais; pointing out mode of
cure at once certain and effectual, by
which every sufferer, no matter what
his condition may be, may cure himself
cheaply, privately and radically.
HsS- THIS lecture triI prOrc boon to thOus-
Gnds and thousands
Sent under seal, in plain envelope, to
any address, on receipt OF tour cents, or
two postage stamps. Address
THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO..
Al Ann So, New York, n. ",
Post Office Box, $50.
june 30-1SS6 Iy-
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Boldo giucine is the name Of another
new hypnotic It Is given for nervous
insomnia IN doses OF from twenty esrains
TO two drams,
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Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Rern,,gl il
son of the late Judge Harris, of KNOX
vile, Tenn, who was the author of the
s.Sut Lovengood'' sketches. famous
among the lovers of hurnor some thirtv
yems ago. Chicago Tribune.
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A new pocket camera has- been IN.
vented Il IS inelose,l in, an; ordinary ST..
yer WATCH case, and Is said To "a, veIsvS
Good work by. the dry plate process.
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what Would He DO on ,yht.l-,-9

Gen. BUulanger, the beIlicoso French
minister Of war, frequently refreshes him
self while engaged m fieAee debate wifi
drinks of sugared water. A man vyhtF
can thirst for gore ON beverage Of thar
sort must be a born tiger -Boston GI,,L,..
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In old times parents brought children
up, but now children bring parents down.
Boston Courier.
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A Cautious woman.

"Is this your fourth or your eth mar
r1ages' she asked, in a loud voice. Of ,1E
old wOnE.rt On the ear. -.
Hush! Don t speak 50. Ioudr This Il:
my eth, but he's in poor health and I
may n want to marry aeains ss'-Detroit
fress Press.
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Anticipation sIias big dinner wIliel,
we eat ,afsiarf 5htill feel hungry an csfer.
-ecasf Dand.r. : - - =
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HILLS
CENTRAL HOTEL,
PARKaRsRnRe M ~.

WI. HILL. Proprietor. Nearest Ho.
tel to R r. Depot, Post Office and busi-
ness part of the City. The largest and
best Sample Rooms and Private ParIors
IN the State. Free Bus to and from all
trains and steamboats,
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a druggist at Pasadena. CAL. adver.
tises for one thousand horned toads.
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FOR SALE.

OToRE House-2f feet by so feet, with
y ware-rOOm II feet wide full length of
tore Lot Sc feet front and S2i feet
ep, on 9th street fronting Court House
RI. Good business location.
Jsnuarv 10th, 81. WNL. SMITH.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $4,000
GJ- Notice Tickets are Ter. Dol.
lars only. HGiUeS, So. FifthS,
So. TeJttILS, 81.
LIST OF PRIZES.

2.179 Prizes, amounting .S535, 900
Application for rates to clubs should
be made only to to the office of the Com
pany in New Orleans.
For further information write clearly,
giving full address. POSTAL.
NOTES. Express Money Orders, or
New York Exchange in ordinary let
ter. Currency by Express (at our ex-
pense) addressed
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
Washington, ID. @.
Address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK
New Orleans. La.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-08
Marshfteld, Wis.,, Destroyed by Fire.

On Monday afternoon, on the 9th inst,
fire broke cut in the woodward of Upham' 8
Manufacturing company and spread with
lightning like rapidity, in spite OF desper-
ate efforts on the part OF the citizens. at
3 o'clock the entire business part OF
the town was lost and the flames
continued to rage. Nothing could
be done to save them, and almost
beside themselves the people stood
around and Saw the results OF years OF
hard labor 60 down. Little could be
saved. Late in the evening the fierce ele-
ment was stopped when nothing more
could be destroyed. The entire business
portion OF the town was burned.
The losses cannot be estimated
closely, but will exceed, upon the
best OF calculation, 81 100000, and are
but partly insured. But one store was
saved. About fifteen hundred people were
without shelter. Upham,s planning mill
and several other mills and all the depot
buildings OF the Wisconsin Central have
burned down.
Marshfield, Wood county, Wis, is on
the main line OF the Wisconsin Central
railway. It is ISL miles from St. Paul
and 2S1 miles from Chicago. Its popula-
tion is 1900. The principal business in
terests OF the place were it's saw mills,
furniture factory, planning mills, flour
mills and stave and heading factories. 1t
had several notes.-the fremont, Clark,
Eagle, Marsh1ield and American.
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End Of the National Fiscal Year.

J. Washington Special: The fiscal year
closed with the close OF business on Thurs.
day June the 3Oth inst. An approximate
statement can be given as to the fiscal re-
suits OF the year, and it will not material
" differ from the fluctuations which are
not generally made before September.
The receipts for the fiscal year exceed the
estimates very considerably. The receipts
from Internal revenue are $11S, 500,-
GOO. This is 100000 more than
the estimates, and is attrib-
uted to some extent to the large receipts
from the tax upon oleomargarine. The re-
ceipts from customs will be about $218,-
900, 900, or $s,OOO,OOO more than the
treasury estimates. The estimates were
made by Mr.. Manning. This amount is
more than was ever received before from
customs in any fiscal year excepting 1882.
But not withstanding the large receipts for
this year the treasury officials do not ex-
pect that there will be a continued
growth in the receipts from the customs in
the next year as there has been In the last
and the estimates OF the custom income for
the next fiscal year are Sis, 900. 900.
There is nothing in the condition Of the
treasury to Indicate Il material reduction in
the revenues or to make it seem probable
that the question of the reduction OF the
surplus will not be vital one for long
time to come. The surplus is very much re-
duced from the large figures OF one year
ago, and it is probably not more than one.
half OF that sum. There will be many
new demands upon the treasury because the
appropriations for the new fiscal year be-
come available, and among the immediate
demands are for the per cents called and
payable from after July to the amount
OF $40, 700, 900; s12, 900, 900 for pension,
and large sums for other purposes.